The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-07-31
nrR. meLYNx ON OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Old Kuow-N thinEisn, wnsVioicnt with
Littie Cause-The New Know.Nothinuisn
Seems Weak yyhen it should be Great.
From TIE North American Rerie

| Tho KnowN Nothing party OF q generation
sn nsS Of Ge ~ e1ns 70 %
very similar 70 that Of the 0rangemen in n, l5 S
Catholic Church. The alleged justification OF
this hostility was the danger TO our american T.t,n
what was considered q foreign religion.
foreigner, an italian, living 4oo0 miles from
our country--and. whnt made II worse. a S Snl:
ruling with doepotic authority Somm MN tbYs
country, rs we'll as with tho monarchies
! OF Europe, as an equal sovereign power. 49,.
To us Of this generation 1t must appear tnat
ings. Tor the Immediate future %, q America,
ton OF foreign horn people and Of Catholics 70
the people q old American and !, n4n-Sa.horlS
vK m nr of foreign s citizens and
Catholics In their influence on politics. an ND IN
divinity as s s
Thirty years ago there was no thought OF
what to-day Is with many OF our tSfeign, born
OF Protestant, an avowed hope and intention,
still more in church, schools Of which they
! have exclusive control. to perpetuate their Tor
of large porons Of country 10
the dtspassionate obsSryHSr TINS hoPe u Il 80 80
| entertained by any man having tho least ac-
quaintance with our country. Yet 1t has been
| ayowed to mo by u German Clergyman 81 this
| and Ireland wore almost exhausted as sources
| Of emigration. while Germany with her $4,000
Gundro oI Of ' thousands sol Of her people on our
shores. This insane hope II cherished chiefly
m In tine OF sy FL boSs brn
tsseSer IN SMrsh s Schools in st. Louis Tor tho
gnage OF Americn-the English-.and q clerical
Superintendent. to reproach an American boy
lice to his reRrobation than to say" ~ dlst Elm
IS GidsspreaG and arS persstens Effort With
the Ssyos & thee To
tiply German church schools and German par.
ishes, and to nake, tho mlstiplicaiion OF the
pontm AN VIE ans aid Gardnas
II. Rome. Of German speaking bishops.
but & the sRsa
appointed pastors over English speaking con.
OF ena IN RssFS
been 80 hS the
GERMAN xpcSb shop and its Gsrman theoIos
cal seminary has bsen very largely Germa an,
are e T ar the great HrohbsSop
RIGS Of Cincinnati and St. Louis. may as well
Jet. that German A morican Bishop who went
to Washington to sound the government upon
the question Of diplomatic relations rs with the
tho Archbishopric II St. Lonis. which. It was
hoped. would speedily BECOME vacant by the
The fact IS. as has been stated by Prof. Boy
essen in q recent magazine article, urging re-
serving our American nationality and in.
sps of t ht so smd nH fore
them make No coneeslmSs a of their Il
| AmariapDa md of m pripnn nd trn-
ditions 1t can hardly be denied that in oil this
there IL some danger in the way Of the speedy
to t one common Of Al. Amsriean type. II the wishes
and designs avowed by not n few of these for.
ikey to be- ei reazed I'VE we might Veil brand them
as guilty OF constructive treason against our
try: and ths ere Would be immensely greater
occasion and excuse in al this for display of
Eaeat ebSoD o te
what little We boar today Of complaint is but
O faint mutterins compared to the former
storm OF Pronunciation and rcmonstrance..
Now that the number OF foreign- born m inha6i-
uiation. we hear nothing like the former fran
Protestant. And vet things have been hap
pening within the last few years all oyer the
New YORK IA mere n 1.-THE OF Which would but a
generation ago, have stirred the country to u
white heat oil anger: ,,.. j.,
means SO averse as wcro their predecessors to
their ckad by The grateful nd npGs
is now more common than to speak of and to
address On by The dus"l sobrauet
Thirty five years ago it was extremely rere
to hear from bishops and priests the denun-
IN spte SO Of m
the phrase have well been falled and nay Tor
of our liberties, and the safeguard OF American
Institutions. The late james A. McM0ster,
Fs pona hs GGoRnc ' "a only y 5ns
view Of tho school question. From this We can
gather that the other bishops did not thon see
their Successors c si almost unSnmousy discover
This is also shown by the lgnguq%e,of tho ear
Her councils OF Da I, In which speakinG
tic immoralties Of these schools, Of which
things we have In lnto years heard SO much
from Bishops and priests and their organs.
There is now nm ayowed determiination. as
establish all over The countrya great system Of
parochial SCHOOLS in Opposition to the public
fhSG se2 rs %sS sas afs 81 aSy
sion, to found such schools. The hope if not
concealed that. when the so-cnlled Catholic
vote" shall become larger. tho politicians may
DO induced 10 appropriate, through State Legis-
latures or local Governments. III the funds
This has already been accomplished in Pough-
keepsie. New Haven. and elsewhere. and for q
brief period during the Offensive and defensive
alliance between n certain set of priests and
the Tammany, Ring OF tho days of Tweed.
Connolly, and Sweeny, an appropriation
procured by Legislative trick and fraud,
under 6the management Of Peter b.. Sweeny.
awarded several hundred thousand dollars to
the parochial schools of New York city. What
would the old-time Know Nothinngs have
parochiai schools, which 1t is the design to
multipy arc exempt from taxation and that
thus the public in some sense puts a premium
upon u system of schools hostile to its own,
and 50 encourages the laying OF an enormous
pie who have already paid, directly or Indirect
~ their iull share Of the taxes for the SUPPORT
Inc tepdency to- forbid them 70 to USE sc' Under
penalty Of priyation oil the sacraments.,
1t Is not riskins much to say that II there
were no public schools there would DO very few
paroehial schools, and the, Catholic children,
for all the churchmen would do Tor them, would
commonplace of churchmon here would be the
doctrine taught by tho Josuits In Italy, in their
| DAriOdipnl mnr,a2inn tho f'jriUl IIHOlir1 that